Hello, I'm Adrianne. Sometimes, I go by Adri.

I am a web development bootcamper hailing in a small suburb located on the East Bay side of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. A self-proclaimed Californian otaku nerdette of the interwebs, I get into so many trades and can't focus on one particular interest to save my life. I dabble a lot with delicious and nutritious food because of my Type 2 Diabetes and go through a gazillion drafts to get my creations right due to a mild case of OCD. When I don't mess around with (WordPress) websites or sneak around Skillcrush, Udemy, Treehouse, and Lynda.com for supplemental learning, I mess with various kinds of art, read novels of certain types, non-fiction, and reference eBooks, play various video games from consoles to the PC, watch TV and movies sparingly (almost never), anime/manga, cheering for the Golden State Warriors, the Oakland A's, and the San Jose Sharks, and write stories that are disorganized and unfinished. [EXTEND »]

I had my annual eye appointment earlier this morning, and having your eyes dilated sucks. You wear these temporary “sunglasses” as you get out of the clinic, and then you feel like a vampire melting under the sun. Luckily my eyes weren’t too sensitive and I was able to drive back home safely. I really looked silly with them though, but yes, as a diabetic, you will always have these annual eye exams.

The result? My eyesight still remains the same. No new eyeglasses to change. Thank goodness because I don’t have the money to pay for the lenses.1 Other than that, no progress thus yet, as I’m still waiting for my new host to provide me SSH access for me to restore poor WSD.

On the other news, I have been thinking and thinking really hard and I have decided. Now that I migrated,2 and that I got a new domain and a new name for it,3 I have decided to create a small network of blogs under this domain. Maybe I’ll be opening one or two blogs under the TAL4 Network. I’ve already come up with a new blog coming up.

I have been looking into WordPress’s multisite network feature for quite awhile now, but I haven’t really

COMING SOON: Symmetry

This upcoming blog will be a health and beauty journal. Being a Type 2 diabetic, and still feeling healthy at the same time, eating the right foods in moderation, I think it’s important to chronicle some of the new habits and discoveries that I started incorporating with my sugar level moderating life. Lately, I have been crazy over Korean skincare and simply keeping my skin healthy as much as I can. A healthy skin can be a youthful, beautiful skin, without spending your arm and leg over plastic surgery or any specialized routine from spas and professional aestheticians.5

So, why do I call this upcoming health and beauty journal Symmetry? I first learned of this word during math class, learning basic geometry, and reflections and mirror images of one side to the next that makes a particular shape both balanced and perfect. In a way, the word symmetry is synonymous with balance. I wouldn’t say so much with perfection, but a perfect balance within yourself can help you live a more fulfilling, and a longer, life. Think of it as a synonym of yin and yang, if you will.

The word symmetry can also be synonymous with moderation. You won’t be able to achieve that “perfect balance” without doing things in moderation. Having too little or having too much of anything is not very good for your well-being. But if you do your daily habits in moderation, you are on your way to that “perfect balance.”

I’ve got what I need to open this blog, now all I have to do is to build it.

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When your eyes are dilated, it’s like you’ve become a temporary vampire when it comes to daylight LOL. Your eyes are fine when you’re inside a building, even if the lights are on. However, when you come outside and the sun is bright and shining, your dilated eyes become really sensitive to light for about 4-5 hours. That’s why, before you leave the clinic, the optometrist or the receptionist will hand you an envelope with temporary paper-thin plastic sunglasses for you to wear over your eyes or your eyeglasses (if you’re wearing one).

Looking forward to it too. I have to prioritize my portfolio though, but I need something that would show off my skills. The only thing I could think of is adding a lot of experiments and projects in CodePen. Gah, the headache of having too much to do LOL.Adri recently posted A network in the making on her blog!

Hi Lucien! I’m a nearsighted diabetic, and as a diabetic, it’s important to have annual eye exams. One of the things that optometrists do in order to perform these types of eye exams is to dilate your eyes, so that they’ll able to examine the inside of your eye. No, I don’t get blinded or anything like that, but the medicine they use for dilation really does make your eyes temporarily sensitive to sunlight, so yeah. Vampire eyes for five hours LOL.

When I was born, according to my parents anyway, I started off being left-handed. Then, they enrolled me in a private Catholic school where teachers forced their students to learn how to write with their right hand. Would’ve been nice to be ambidextrous though LOL.Adri recently posted A network in the making on her blog!